The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-02

on her seventy-fifth birthday. But "Un-
Gle Toms Cabin" has brought them
many basketful of greenbacks.
Queen Victoria and the pope are
personally acquainted. They first met at
Brussels at banquet given by the king.
Cardinal Pecci was Nuncio there and
Doyen OF the diplomatic corps, and he sat
by the queen and had long converse
ton with her. Afterward he had an au-
dience with her in London.
Mime. Trelat, who died in Paris re-
Gently at the age of eighty-four, leaving
fortune of 100000 to the municipality
OF Paris, was a patriot and devoted
worker for the interest of women. When
the New York infirmary school, which adj
mltted women, was struggling into exis-
tence, Nine. Trelat, unsolicited, sent
over generous donation.
-Gen. Sherman in his West Point
speech to the recent graduates, said +:
"There is an old saying that knowledge
is power This is not true. Action is
power, and when guided by knowledge,
produces the largest measure of results.
have encountered men who knew more
OF the science Of war than Grant, Meade,
or Hancock whom would not have
intrusted with picket guard"
Mr.. Joseph W. Drexel has present.
ed landscape by Edward Gay, costing
$4,000, for the adornmentof the new Exec
utive mansion at Albany, in the hope that
other citizens will follow his example.
Governor Hill, in accepting the gift, an
nounces that the large wall spaces of the
edifice afford excellent opportunity for
the display of appropriate pictures.
The London Christian World
says: "The bread cast by Livingston
on the vast waters of Central Africa is
being found after many days. His gen.
erous dreams OF slave trade suppressed,
fair garden planted, fresh commerce
created, and healing gospel preached
in the heart of the unknown continent,
are being realized"
George W. Childs never does things
by halves. Gems. Sherman and Sheridan
expressed wish while at West Point re-
Gently, to have their portraits placed be-
side that of Grant in Grant Hall. Mr..
Childs, who presented West Point with
the portrait of Grant, told Sherman and
Sheridan that be would gladly add their
pictures to his gift, and added that they
were at liberty 60 choose their own artists.
The portraits of the two Generals are to
be the same size as that of Gen. Grant.
-"I am dying, Egypt, dying" is
one of the worlds immortal poems and it
is to its author, Gen. VIM. Ell. Lytle, one
of the bravest of Ohio soldiers, that the
Army of the Cumberland is about to erect
a monument at Cincinnati, if sufficient
subscriptions can be secured. IL valor
and patriotism and genius are to be rec
ognized and honored, there should be no
doubt on this score, for surely there are
thousands ready to give their mite TO-
ward marking the grave of the poet-sol-
der.
The first woman appointed to be
Treasury clerk at Washington was Miss
Jeanette l.. Douglass, of lion, New York
She had been teacher in Mrs. Smiths
female seminary at the national capital,
and her appointment was obtained
through the influence of Mr.. Gerritt
Smith, who in her youth, was near
neighbor. Some years afterwards she
went to Scotland to secure a fortune to
which che believed she had fallen heir.
In 1870 she returned to New York, and
mysteriously disappeared. Her friends
have neither seen nor heard of her since.
The Pope, although now approach
ing four-score years, labors with greater
industry than any secular sovereign
in Europe. Like Napoleon, he spends
little time in sleep, rising at six in winter
and an hour earlier in summer. He
spends an hour in meditation, in prepara-
ton for mass, which he says at 7:30 every
morning. Then he takes his breakfast,
as he does all of his meals, alone. This
repast consists of chocolate, and egg, fruit
and bread without butter. Breakfast
over, he retires to his cabinet where the
affairs of the church engross many hours
OF his time. Later in the day he gives
audience and stterward walks in the
garden of the Vatican.
king Humbert, Of Italy, does not
like to attend places OF entertainment in
solitary state, as the late King Ludwig,
of Bavaria did, and as even Queen Vic
toris does. He wants his people to be
present with him. At the opening of the
exhibition at Venice the King gave ex-
preston to his disappointment at the
loneliness and emptiness Of the halls.
An official told him that the public had
been kept out from royal consideration
for the comfort of himself and the Queen.
i am sorry for this" said his Majesty,
though you have done it in good part.
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